Baby-exerciser.



Patented Aug. 7, 1900.

No. 655,63I.

c; E. 'LATSHAW. BABY EXERCISER.

(Application filed Sept. 25, 1899.)

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(Application filed Sept. 25, 1899.)

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trnn CHARLES EDlVARD LATSHAWV, LINCOLN, NEBRASKA.

BABY -EXERCISER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 65 5,631, dated August 7, 1900.

Application filed September 25,1899- serial No. 781,690. No model!) To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES EDWARD LAT- sI-IAW, residing at Lincoln, in the county of Lancaster and State'of Nebraska, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Baby-Exercisers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is an improvement in socalled baby-jumpers or apparatus for supporting infants elastically, so that they may use their legs freely in springing or jumping, thus combining the benefits of exercise and amusement without requiring close watching or attendance by the mother or nurse.

The features of general construction and special novelty are as hereinafter set forth, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figures 1 and 2 are different side views of my improved baby-exerciser, and Fig. 3 is a rear View of the body-girdle or waist-forming Figs. 4 and 5 are perspective views illustrating the practical operation and use of the exerciser.

A strap 0; serves to suspend the exerciser as a whole from a screw or other fixed device. A spiral spring I) is pendent from said strap a and connected at its lower end with the central coils of a wire spring 0, which is nearly straight and held normally in horizontal position. The ends of this springc are formed into books 0, which are inclined downward at an angle of about forty-five degrees, and, being at the top, they allow the obtuse-angle springs d to be readily inserted and detached, and, being long, they hold said springs securely, so that they are not displaced by the jumping of an active child. In detachable engagement with such main spring a I employ two auxiliary anglesprings cl cl, the same being suspended from the hooks c and arranged parallel to each other and at right angles to the main spring 0. Said springs d have an acute angle, and their arms project an equal distance on opposite sides of the hooks a. They are adapted to rock or oscillate on the latter and may be easily engaged with or detached therefrom, as occasion requires.

A suspending girdle or waist g is provided for temporary attachment to the body of a child, and it is suspended from the extremities of the two anglesprings cl by means of four straps f. The latter are provided at each end with snap-hooks e, which permit convenientattachmentand detachment. The said straps may be attached to the waist g by means of eyes i. The girdleor waist g is formed of cloth--say cant0n-flanneland consists of a band for encircling the childs body and a flap which in practice passes between its legs and is drawn up in front and pinned to the overlapped portions of the girdle. The latter is cut out at h to accommodate the arms of the child and is provided with one or more plaits at 70.

Fig. 4 shows the exerciser in use, supporting a child who is in the act of jumping.

Fig. 5 illustrates the angle-springs at detached from the main spring a and employed as handholds, by which an adult may support a child while exercising or giving him first lessons in walking. It will be seen that in this case, as when the angle-springs are attached to the main spring 0, they hold the straps f widely separated, so that the latter do not chafe or bind the arms and shoulders of the child, but leave them free as possible for any desired movement and at the same time furnish a duly-elastic support or means of suspension.

The snap-hooks 6 enable the strapsfto be readily detached from the angle springs as well as the girdle, and all parts of the apparatus are thus adapted to be easily and quickly put together or separated, as occasion requires.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In a baby-exerciser, the combination, with the main or horizontal spring having dependent hooks which are arranged as specified, of the two obtuse-angle springs cl, adapted for attachment to and suspension from said hooks, and the girdle and four straps attached thereto and to ends of the angle-springs, as shown and described.

CHARLES EDWARD LATSHAW.

WVitnesses:

THAD. H. WOODWARD, JOHN C. HAYENSIOK. 

